The instrument of death is introduced as Orson Wells takes us through the Black Museum. The mystery rolls the clock back to the year of 1910, and a peaceful afternoon…
Chief Superintendent John Davidson relates a crime, direct from Scotland Yard's Black Museum. A dark gray shirt with blood stains is the key to the missing Francesca, girl who had…
A letter arrives for Scotland Yard inspectors to read. Ramsey enters, coincidentally with information on that same crime. The 2 hour interview turns up plenty of things about a bride…
Thomas Appleby was 70 when he married his 39 year old bride. When he died from a crushed skull at age 75, neighbors had only sympathy for his wife, until…
Sensitive documents have been turned over to enemy hands. Secrets involving the manufacture of an atom bomb have been betrayed. Now its in the hands of Scotland Yard to investigate,…
Visiting a crime of 30 yers ago, a 32 year old Peter Amery looked much older than his years, and wife just 4 years younger than he. In voiceover, details…
Starting with a vieew of various exhibits from the Black Museum, news of a possible new entry arrives. A fire is just smoldering out when the Scotland Yard inspectors arrive. Could it have been suicide? Maybe, but not with a bullet hole in the victim's back.
Pilot episode, written and directed by Willis Cooper, creator of Lights Out, Quiet Please, and others. Presents a series of cases based on real crimes, but fictionalized for radio. In the vane of other shows like Dragnet, or the Black Museum, the names have been changed, and the crimes are presented in a matter of fact style, and sometimes brutal reality.